Comments on: Think Better Summary Day 4: That’s Not the Way We Do Things Around Here

By: stevecunningham

stevecunningham — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:56:41 +0000

I think it would be great if we did it everyday

By: stevecunningham

stevecunningham — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:54:47 +0000

Excellent post, and great idea! I think I'll be implementing a “stupid rules” content at our company in the very near future.

By: Bill Gemmell @simplifywithus

Bill Gemmell @simplifywithus — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:12:00 +0000

That's not the way we do things around here – I wish I had a dollar for every time someone has said that to me! But now that I work with, rather than in companies, it's my challenge to challenge. Steve, I like what you threw down to us – to see if we can come up with an alternative. But why only today? It's down to people like us, people who share with us in the Read it for Me community to grasp the nettle, and to make the changes.

By: sherfelad

sherfelad — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:46:38 +0000

I love this idea. We need to constantly attack our underlying assumptions about the way "we do things around here". The trick is how to make a process out of it and foster motivation in people to actively engage in breaking and restructuring the culture. Bob Sutton wrote a post about creating a "stupid rules" contest between employees to find the most stupid rule that need to be canceled. I took that Idea one step further in a post a wrote about it (http://bit.ly/b1dYbQ) to say this is a skill, the ability to kill things, that we must acquire and train. To many things suck! Let's change them! Thanks Steve!